Hariton of Kosovo | |
Birth Date: | 1960 11, df=yes |
Birth Name: | Radoslav Lukić |
Feast Day: | 11 October (O.S. 28 September) |
Venerated In: | Eparchy of Raška and Prizren in exile |
Birth Place: | Seoce, Kuršumlija, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia |
Death Place: | Prizren, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
Titles: | Holy martyr |
Canonized Date: | 16 May 2015 |
Canonized Place: | Ljuljaci, |
Canonized By: | the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren in exile |
Monk Hariton, venerable neomartyr of Kosovo (born Radoslav Lukić) (Seoce, 21 November 1960 — Prizren, 15 June 1999) was a monk of the Serbian Orthodox Church that was murdered by Albanian KLA soldiers in the Kosovo War.[1] [2] [3] [4] He was canonized by the unrecognized uncanonical Church, Eparchy of Raška and Prizren in exile on 16 May 2016 in the monastery of Saint John the Baptist in the village Ljuljaci.[5]